Rosy potatoes with onions and mushrooms, fish baked with vegetables, fried meat, thin pancakes, fluffy pancakes… We will not continue further for safety reasons and because the best recipes from the chef are not the topic of this article. Listing only these culinary delights is enough to understand that it is impossible to cook them without having a good frying pan in the kitchen. We hope that the article will be useful to both novice cooks, and experienced housewives, and cooks in their own cafe or restaurant, as its topic is an electric frying pan.
The second word in the phrase is the key. It is not just a piece of stainless steel kitchen utensils set. And not an expensive titanium frying pan for an electric stove. When choosing this assistant, you don’t need to remember the type of stove in your kitchen at all. This is embodied inlife is the dream of parents-students in the dorms of the seventies, trying to skip the line at the common gas or some other stove in the kitchen to quickly fry scrambled eggs on a hot iron in order to be in time for an evening at the club. Mains powered household appliances allow you to prepare he althy and tasty meals quickly and easily. An electric grill pan, for example, will roast meat like in nature at any time of the year in a cozy kitchen. Trust experience - the result will please both you and your guests.
Design features
The main difference between the device is that the electric frying pan is equipped with a heating element, thermal or infrared radiation, powered by the mains. The elements are hermetically sealed into the body of the pan and cannot come into contact with food. There is a one-sided installation of the heating element, only in the bottom or cover, or two-sided. The electric grill pan is an example of the second type. It heats up both surfaces. Modern electrical appliances necessarily have a built-in thermostat. This is convenient because you can set the desired temperature of the frying surface. It is maintained uniform and stable over the entire area, which eliminates the risk of burning food or disturbing the temperature regime of cooking. The shape of the frying surface can be rectangular or round.
Sizes are also different. Household frying pans are produced with a volume of three and a half liters. Industrial models have bowls over ten liters. Accordingly, the power of the devices is different. The lids of electric frying pans havesteam outlet. Another mandatory feature of high-quality models is the presence of handles made of materials with low thermal and electrical conductivity, which ensures safety and ease of use.
Pros and cons of materials
The most popular are still cast iron pans. This is the most durable material. Even when overheated, it does not emit any harmful substances into food. To prevent the cast iron bowls from rusting, when caring for them, it is better not to use any detergents, but simply wash with clean water and then ignite. The only negative is a lot of weight. It is also not recommended to leave cooked vegetable dishes in a cast-iron pan for a long time, they may darken.
Stainless steel as a material for the production of electric frying pans began to be used relatively recently. With many advantages, the most significant of which is safety for he alth, stainless steel has disadvantages. It is low thermal conductivity and weak non-stick. The invention of a multi-layered bottom with aluminum-copper inserts helped to partially eliminate these shortcomings, but significantly increased the price of products. Stainless steel pans require gentle care, just like their aluminum counterparts. The first domestic electric frying pan "Miracle" was made of aluminum without additional coating. For its appearance, it was nicknamed the flying saucer. In general, well-polished aluminum has a high non-stick quality. Coatings are used to improve these properties: Teflon, ceramics and other alloys.
Cons of coatings
With a plusnon-stick coatings understandable. And the main and very dangerous minus is that aluminum and its alloys cannot stand overheating. If the thickness of the frying surface of the pan is small, then the non-stick coatings evaporate from high temperatures, and substances harmful to human he alth enter the food. For the same reasons, when working with coated aluminum cookware, it is not recommended to use any metal knives, spatulas, so as not to damage the surface. They can only be washed with soft sponges with special detergents.
If you follow all the recommendations, the service life can be extended, but still it is not so long when compared with stainless steel or cast iron pans.
Almost a slow cooker
Modern models of household electric frying pans can be used for frying, stewing without fat or using a minimum amount of it, which is good for he alth. They are great for making pancakes. The electric frying pan will please lovers of homemade pizza. Without any problems, you can heat up ready-made meals to the right temperature or defrost food better and safer than in a microwave oven. According to the set of possible functions of the electric frying pan, according to the reviews, this is an economical mini-multi-cooker.
Characteristics of electric grills
Electric grills occupy a special place among electrical household appliances.
Models of modern leading brands are open or closed. Closed grills are actually compact tabletop grills.electric furnaces in which there is a special working chamber. The heating elements and the engine are located in special compartments. They are insulated from the products, but fit quite tightly to them. Thanks to this, meat, fish are fried quickly, evenly, without smoke and smell. Products do not burn. In cafes and home restaurants, open-type grills are more commonly used. They are larger in volume, they do not have a camera, they work on infrared emitters. The heating elements are built into the grill lid. Smoke and smell cannot be avoided, so they are used outdoors.
Industrial type electric frying pans
In many respects, the industrial electric tilting frying pan is the best option for large and small catering establishments. To improve the quality of dishes, frying surfaces in industrial models are often made of stainless steel or cast iron in the form of bowls with special lids equipped with troughs for draining condensate. The density of their closing is regulated by a spring mechanism. Fast heating and a high heat transfer coefficient in industrial frying pans is ensured by the fact that the heating elements are connected directly to the heat-conducting material of the bottom, the thickness of which in high-quality models is from fifteen millimeters. The inner surfaces are embossed, which speeds up the cooking process with low fat consumption. The bowls can have several heating zones with separately controlled temperature. On one zone you can quickly fry, and on the other you can keep the dish hot. Large frying surfaces are mounted on specialstands or tables. The name of the electric tilting frying pan indicates the presence of a bowl tilting mechanism to facilitate the process of emptying and caring for the product.
It can be manual (mechanical lever) or electric (by pressing a button). The second, for convenience and safety, is interlocked with the lid lifting mechanism. Bowl operations are only possible with the lids open. Industrial models are equipped with control panels with temperature controllers and alarm indicators. Temperature limits vary from twenty to three hundred degrees. When any frying surface is heated above three hundred and fifty degrees, an emergency shutdown of the heaters heating it is activated.
To serve for a long time
The service life of both household and industrial electric frying pans depends on how the rules of operation and care are followed, and, very importantly, safety measures when working with electrical appliances. In addition to detailed instructions for mandatory reading, manufacturers of quality brands attach recipes to their miracle pans. Before experimenting, cook on them. You'll love it, trust me!
